Read this Sott article http://www.sott.net/articles/show/216590-Big-Pharma-Genocide-Bayer-has-been-dumping-AIDS-infected-drugs-all-over-the-globe-for-decades which was primarily about Bayer - here is a small brief on this firms background.
Should be noted that companies in their infancy, practicing science 75 - 100 years ago developed what is now common place, and at that time scientist were awarded on the academic stage for these things.
But as small things grow, especial in the hands of opportunists with no human empathy, things get way out of hand - which brings us to Bayer;
Bayer
Some of the following is directly quoted from Joseph Borkin and the rest in brief is pieced together from his written account called ‘The Crime and Punishment of I.G. Farben’, of which Bayer was prominent. To get a fuller understanding of Bayer, I.G. Farben in its totality needs to be considered.
“The Devil’s Chemists”, the term from Nuremberg that referred to companies like I.G. Farben, whom Bayer was immersed.
Carl Duisberg, the Pan-German and GM of Bayer, who controlled the international network of distribution arrives in New York in 1903 and sets up shop production of dyestuff and pharmaceuticals.
He uses the J.D. Rockefeller prescription “trust’ and convinces the Big Six back home; Bayer, BASF and Agfa to form and Hoechst, Cassella, Kalle to also amalgamate to abate competition and profit sharing. Each company however kept its own identity and “retained control over its own polices and activities.”
Forward in time:
Poisonous weapons were outlawed in 1907 Hague, which Germany and others eventually ignored. Carl Duisburg again committed Bayer to poison gas projects such as phosgene and so much more.
By 1916 Duisberg takes the Big Six and adds two more, Ter Meer and Greisham and forms Interessen Gemeinschaft der Deutschen Teerfarbenindustrie or in the end I.G Farben.
From that date until after the war, with the help of the Teerfarbenindutrie of which Bayer was a major part, committed heinous crimes of which history tells.
Post war, Eisenhower calls for the breaking up of I.G. as follows;
• Plants and assets available for reparations
• Destroy I.G. plants used for war
• Breakup monopoly control/disperse ownership
• Terminate I.G. interest in international cartels
• Take over I.G. research programs and facilities.
By 1947 the new buzz was the Cold War and thus the Breakup of I.G. was suspended.
By 1949 the “stockholders of I.G. went into action. They formed a stockholders protective committee and demanded that instead of forty-seven separate units operated by trustees, the I.G. plants should be consolidated into three companies: Bayer, BASF, and Hoechst.”
Back and forth it went between the Allied High Commission and I.G. companies and stockholder committee’s for a few more years until 1951 that the big 3 would retain their 1926 identities; Bayer, BASF, and Hoechst and retaining most of the former boards and officials – no convicted war criminals of course.
By 1954 it was all over with signed Paris treaties. Of note, by 1955 “Bayer, exercising its new freedom, promptly revisited its bylaws to permit bearer shares. Henceforth, the owners of Bayer could be anonymous.” Also, these companies reinstated war criminals like Friedrich Jaehne of Hoechst back into his Chair. Fritz ter Meer (convicted of plunder and slavery), “was elected chairman of the supervisory board of Bayer.” And then the companies became who they are today; super-rich is just one aspect. By 1956 Bayer tripled its capitalization – the rebirth of the cartel from the ashes of the Nazis regime.
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So who are these chemical behemoths today and who held the class A shares and bearer bonds; who were the anonymous owners?
With all the other big producers toady, how interrelated are they? What seems so, is that their roots do indeed come from horrendous ground build on the destruction of human beings. IG seems just one of the grandfather's from which this horror sprung and they did benefit from the cold, possibly convenient war (for some) into the welcome arms of the west.
Look to the roots of them all and the story will be similar.
God is truth and light his shadow.
-Plato
Should be noted that companies in their infancy, practicing science 75 - 100 years ago developed what is now common place, and at that time scientist were awarded on the academic stage for these things.
But as small things grow, especial in the hands of opportunists with no human empathy, things get way out of hand - which brings us to Bayer;
Bayer
Some of the following is directly quoted from Joseph Borkin and the rest in brief is pieced together from his written account called ‘The Crime and Punishment of I.G. Farben’, of which Bayer was prominent. To get a fuller understanding of Bayer, I.G. Farben in its totality needs to be considered.
“The Devil’s Chemists”, the term from Nuremberg that referred to companies like I.G. Farben, whom Bayer was immersed.
Carl Duisberg, the Pan-German and GM of Bayer, who controlled the international network of distribution arrives in New York in 1903 and sets up shop production of dyestuff and pharmaceuticals.
He uses the J.D. Rockefeller prescription “trust’ and convinces the Big Six back home; Bayer, BASF and Agfa to form and Hoechst, Cassella, Kalle to also amalgamate to abate competition and profit sharing. Each company however kept its own identity and “retained control over its own polices and activities.”
Forward in time:
Poisonous weapons were outlawed in 1907 Hague, which Germany and others eventually ignored. Carl Duisburg again committed Bayer to poison gas projects such as phosgene and so much more.
By 1916 Duisberg takes the Big Six and adds two more, Ter Meer and Greisham and forms Interessen Gemeinschaft der Deutschen Teerfarbenindustrie or in the end I.G Farben.
From that date until after the war, with the help of the Teerfarbenindutrie of which Bayer was a major part, committed heinous crimes of which history tells.
Post war, Eisenhower calls for the breaking up of I.G. as follows;
• Plants and assets available for reparations
• Destroy I.G. plants used for war
• Breakup monopoly control/disperse ownership
• Terminate I.G. interest in international cartels
• Take over I.G. research programs and facilities.
By 1947 the new buzz was the Cold War and thus the Breakup of I.G. was suspended.
By 1949 the “stockholders of I.G. went into action. They formed a stockholders protective committee and demanded that instead of forty-seven separate units operated by trustees, the I.G. plants should be consolidated into three companies: Bayer, BASF, and Hoechst.”
Back and forth it went between the Allied High Commission and I.G. companies and stockholder committee’s for a few more years until 1951 that the big 3 would retain their 1926 identities; Bayer, BASF, and Hoechst and retaining most of the former boards and officials – no convicted war criminals of course.
By 1954 it was all over with signed Paris treaties. Of note, by 1955 “Bayer, exercising its new freedom, promptly revisited its bylaws to permit bearer shares. Henceforth, the owners of Bayer could be anonymous.” Also, these companies reinstated war criminals like Friedrich Jaehne of Hoechst back into his Chair. Fritz ter Meer (convicted of plunder and slavery), “was elected chairman of the supervisory board of Bayer.” And then the companies became who they are today; super-rich is just one aspect. By 1956 Bayer tripled its capitalization – the rebirth of the cartel from the ashes of the Nazis regime.
...................
So who are these chemical behemoths today and who held the class A shares and bearer bonds; who were the anonymous owners?
With all the other big producers toady, how interrelated are they? What seems so, is that their roots do indeed come from horrendous ground build on the destruction of human beings. IG seems just one of the grandfather's from which this horror sprung and they did benefit from the cold, possibly convenient war (for some) into the welcome arms of the west.
Look to the roots of them all and the story will be similar.
God is truth and light his shadow.
-Plato
